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  1. Yes, I'm attending one, it's a pentecostal/charismatical one, although I'm planning on moving to another church because I believe they are preaching some doctrinal errors :/. Yes, I said to my Pastor what I had and he said that it's common issue, he and my brothers and sisters from that church prayed for me.
  2. Hi! God bless you. I don't always respond in time because I'm busy, my first language isn't English so it takes me some time trying to write in English in a intilligible maner (that may take me even some hours), and because I'm a introvert person, sometimes I avoid social interaction Yes, I'm still struggling with the same issue, I'm getting better since yesterday thank God!
  3. Before I became a christian, I was a non-christian theist that was apathetic about religion and similar topics. My mother and my grandmother are christians, but my grandfather isn't. My grandmother is a catholic who almost never goes to church (and she creates excuses for not going...) and my mother was one too (after I became a christian she started to go to church with me and now she's protestant) and when I was younger I had gone to a catholic catequesis class but there I didn't learn the fundamental things (like for eg. that salvation comes by grace through faith, not by works; that not everyone is saved...etc). The christians of my entire family (which all of them are catholics I guess) didn't even tried to evangelize me. I was blind. It was by becoming interested in reading the Bible by myself that I saw the truth and after then when I started to believe in Jesus I asked Him to forgive my sins and to be my Savior. (Btw, I almost always don't doubt if I'm a true christian until those intrusive thoughts appear).
  4. And I agree with you! I never said trusting in self is salvation. I know trust in Jesus is. I check if I trust Him almost every day.
  5. I'm sorry to hear what happened to you. You have to report to the police what this man did. You have to forgive him (because God wants us to forgive those who hurt us) but that doesn't mean he can't be punished for the crime and immoral act he did. Romans 13:1-7 makes it clear that we have to obey the law if it doesn't contradict the law of God, so not doing so it's a sin; I don't know that much about U.S' law (I'm from Venezuela), but of course, sexual assault and rape should be crimes there. So rape and sexual assault are not only objectively wrong but they are also crimes. If I understood correctly, you also said that some people "advised" you to not tell anything to the police, but again, they may not only going against what ephesians 5:11 tells we have to do but also if some of the people who "advised" you that are friends of this man, they may are going against the law, because...well, wouldn't that count as concealing a crime? And well, even if he doesn't go to prison, when he dies he'll have to face God. Because you may find it difficult to forgive this man, you have to tell to God to help you to do so and to heal your wounds. Never stop praying and reading the Bible. I would also advise to you to join a group of christians that were victims of sexual offenders. Because it would be a group constituted by christians who went through a similar situation, it could be healthy for you to engage in it. In the original post you said you had doubts about why God allow these things to happen. Well, there's a website called "reasonablefaith", it provide answers to questions of that nature. It helps me when I deal with some doubts. I hope you find it useful. Legal reporters for the Wall Street Journal reported on part of the story last year and mentioned his crime. Wait, so they reported his crime and the police did nothing? (Sorry if I said some unintelligible things, I don't have a perfect english, spanish's my native language. By the way, I prayed for you).
  6. When you said "my trust isn't salvation" are you talking about that trusting myself doesn't save (which I agree) or are you saying that I have no faith in jesus? Asking because I don't want to misunderstand you
  7. Thanks for the advice and for praying for me, God bless you.
  8. Hello, God bless you. Been living with these tormenting thoughts (like every day). But I haven't give up. (And I don't want to). Those other intrusive thoughts of another nature appear rarely and they don't affect me that much. I though for a moment that those particular ones disappeared forever, but they didn't. But unlike the ones that attack Christianity, those don't appear that much and don't affect me that much. And thanks for the advice, I'll try to put it into practice.
  9. Thanks for the advice. Honestly, I don't trust myself, I'm scared to do something stupid that makes me lose my faith and my salvation :/ although I have to put more trust in Him.
  10. Hi, thanks for the uplifting words, for the advice and for the recommendations. Although it'll be really hard to stop praying this prayer for salvation everytime I feel like I have fallen from it. It's like a vicious circle... Do you think so? That makes sense. If I get out of this situation with God's help, maybe I'll be one [apologist]. But for the moment I won't. Well, maybe it's not always satan who's annoying me with this situation, but maybe he or his minions attack/s me sometimes, or maybe it's my own fault? (Or both?) God bless you.
  11. Hi, God bless you. Yes, almost always when these thoughts appear I feel anxiety. Sometimes I can't sleep well because of them.
  12. Hi, thanks for the advice. Lately I'm trying to ignore them, because if I don't, they won't leave. Although I have to say it's not easy to do so and sometimes I fail to do so either for my desire to reply them saying things like "no, that's a lie" or "that's stupid"; or for feeling like I'm approving them if I ignore them. God bless you.
  13. Thanks for praying for me and for the uplifting words. Also, does the passage Romans 8:38-39 applies to free will too? I mean, is my free not able to separate me from God?
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